{"id":444,"date":"2004-12-08T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/12\/last_call_for_vitriol\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T15:34:10","slug":"last_call_for_vitriol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/12\/last_call_for_vitriol\/","title":{"rendered":"LAST CALL FOR VITRIOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how to say this without sounding like an old geezer, but James Taylor just has no right to sing &#8220;A Change Is Gonna Come,&#8221; it swallows him up, and it&#8217;s too big a song for most of his audience. It was certainly too big a song for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_West_Wing\/episode_guide\/121.html\" target=\"_blank\">West Wing episode<\/A> it tried to cap: were we supposed to take it EXTRA-literally, that Prez. Bartlett is about to face another WHOPPER of a dilemma with his MS? Geez, talk about cheapening a great idea, one of the great idea songs and among the few with as much heart as political avidity. Wedging it into a phony plot about a &#8220;rare posthumous&#8221; medal to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samcooke.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Cooke<\/A> just so CJ&#8217;s secretary can make lame Taylor song references was just so damn WHITEY.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\nNP: Various BACK FROM THE GRAVE VOLUME 1 (Crypt)<BR><br \/>\nJeff Beck JEFF BECK GROUP (Epic)<BR><br \/>\nSuperdrag LAST CALL FOR VITRIOL (Arrco)<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how to say this without sounding like an old geezer, but James Taylor just has no right to sing &#8220;A Change Is Gonna Come,&#8221; it swallows him up, and it&#8217;s too big a song for most of his audience. It was certainly too big a song for the West Wing episode it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}